Transformation

Altered Book Art Journal

Mini-Lesson

Immediate Access

$42

(This class has been pre-recorded. You will have lifetime access, and all videos are downloadable)

Course Details

Transformation is a beautiful class where you will create an Altered Book, to use as your art journal by Guest Artist Tiffany Goff-Smith.
This course is all about using the remnants from leftover projects, scraps, or, as she calls them, giblets in an altered book journal. It is a class for all skill levels, and Tiffany encourages you to let go and just play with collage.

Tiffany walks you through the many ways to incorporate fabrics and slow intuitive stitching to elevate and create drama within your book.

Course Details

Transformation is a beautiful class where you will create an Altered Book, to use as your art journal by Guest Artist Tiffany Goff-Smith.
This course is all about using the remnants from leftover projects, scraps, or, as she calls them, giblets in an altered book journal. It is a class for all skill levels, and Tiffany encourages you to let go and just play with collage.

Tiffany walks you through the many ways to incorporate fabrics and slow intuitive stitching to elevate and create drama within your book.

Take a look inside of Transformation in the preview video below.

Techniques Taught In This Course

• Techniques:

  • How to choose and alter a book and turn it into your art journal.

  • Collage

  • How to use coffee as a medium.

  • Intuitive Stitching.

  • Incorporate Magazines into your journal.

The Lessons

The course begins with a video discussing art supplies. I encourage you to use the supplies and paper you have on hand and work in the colors you love.

You can find a list of suggested art supplies at the bottom of this page.

Lesson 1 | Picking The Best Book

In this lesson, I will show you examples of what to look for when selecting a used book to turn into your art journal. If you don’t have a book, a magazine will work as well.

Lesson 2 | Collage & Breaking Through

In this lesson, you will use all your bits, and pieces and collage them onto the page. We will use coffee to give the pages a time-worn look. I will share how I glue pages together, collage, and tear the paper to reveal what is beneath. This technique creates amazing texture and interest to your journal pages.

Lesson 3 | Using All The Scraps

In this lesson, Tiffany shows us how to reuse all the papers leftover from past projects. How to work intuitively, and let go of perfection. She will add layers of paper, along with images from vintage yearbooks. She demonstrates how to work with spray inks in unique ways to add beautiful transparent washes to your journal pages.

Lesson 4 | Fabric & Stitching

In this lesson, Tiffany guides you through her unique process of intuitively slow stitch and tear through the fabric to reveal an opportunity for something cool. You will create a "fabric page" in your art journal that incorporates color, texture, and a bit of imagination.

Lesson 5 | Finishing Your Cover

In this final lesson, Tiffany shows you how to create dimension, texture, and interest to personalize your cover.

Supply List

Tiffany is a big believer in “using what you have on hand” to create your altered book

• Palette Knife

• Glue Stick

• Instant Coffee

• DMC Floss in any color & Needle

• Hardback Book in any size (Found in Thrift Stores, on eBay, and on Etsy)

• Ephemera, Scraps and Fabric bits

• Aleene’s Tacky Glue

• Vintage Photos: Flea Market, eBay, and Etsy are good places

  Old Yearbook: Love finding these when thrifting or flea markets

  Sand Paper: Grit needs to be gritty, not smooth.

• E6000 Glue [optional]

• Feather [optional]

• Cheese Cloth [optional]

• Long Handled Stapler [optional]

• Masking Tape

• Safety Pin

• Gummed Back Masking Tape

• Magazine [I am using Click Magazine]

• Cardboard [recycle those boxes]

• Heavy Gel Medium

• Fabric Bits

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